Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5

Slim and Franke

Happy New Year

Thursday, June 30, 2016

This week I used all the words River provided for the last in June. She has done a good job supplying us with challenging words for the fun.virus, business, instrument, special, complex, superhuman, hottest, reconnect, interactive, driftwood, mystery, continental and the phrase, "there is a Prince Charming in all good fairy stories".

My grandparents didn't believe in leaving money to their children
and grandchildren in a will so they gave money to everyone. One time
they gave $10,000 so my parents decided to put in a pool. And that is
where I spent my summers! It was awesome. My grandma died first and when
my grandpa died he didn't have more than a few hundred dollars to his
name.

Because I grew up in NYC, I did lots of reading with weekend
trips to the park for running, and riding our bikes down a sinisterly
steep hill at Riverside Park and avoiding a concrete water faucet, etc..
Once I turned 11, we moved to Florida and got a pool. It was hard for
my mom to get us out of it even to eat. Often, we'd have sandwiches at
pool's edge for lunch and tempestual fits over not wanting to come in
for dinner.

Mostly I played in the backyard with the neighborhood kids. There
was a gang of about 15 of us who were the same age. When we weren't
playing hide and seek or kick the can, we'd go to the rec center to swim
or play volleyball or kickball. Or we'd just ride our bikes or skate on
the sidewalks. Occasionally we'd be allowed to go to the skating rink
or to the bowling alley. Then on Friday nights somebodies mother would
load everyone up in her car and take us to the drive-in theater. If it
sounds like Leave-it-to-Beaver-land, it was. Too bad we didn't
appreciate it as such when we were young.

often we would go to the beach for 5 days and stay in a cabana,
then home on Mon. and Tues. to wash clothes and get ready to do it
again. perhaps all that good fun is why I am always dealing with skin
cancer and pre-skin cancers...... What did you do?

Up at dawn, walk down to the beach, stay all day and come home as
the sun was going down. From about age eight. It was a small town where
everyone knew everyone else just about, so I was safe and home was five
minutes walk away. When I wasn't at the beach I was reading, sometimes
up in a tree reading.

Love this idea. You got some cool comments. I read, rode my bike,
played with my friends, played Gin rummy, went to the lake to go
swimming and sometimes even went to my aunts camp in Maine where we
could walk on the rocks and look for sea creatures at low tide.

About Me

Favorite quote by Angie Worth: "Faith is what holds us together while religion tears us apart."
ABOUT ME: I avoid the news. I have turned off my political upheaval. My days of political activisim are supposed to be over. My hands have been thrown up in surrender and I try to be the best wife, mom, grandma, sibling and chicken farmer that I can be. "I am alive, I am alive by God's grace, I am living in God's care."

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

29 FACES CHALLENGE

29 FACES CHALLENGE

Counter-Terrorist Rooster

UNUSUAL HENHOUSE KIDNAPPING

Published in Countryside Magazine, Sept/Oct 2009 isue. A surprise in one of our chicken house nest boxes Be sure and click to enlarge.

POETRY PORTRAITS

Custom, descriptive poetry for all occasions. Granny Annie established Poetry Portraits by Angie Worth in 1983 and has written and sold over 1,000 since that time. "Angie Worth takes up where Hallmark leaves off" Lou Ann Ruark, Tulsa World, 1984